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Weird but wonderful

Snow parking zone

Traffic police had no hesitation in giving a ticket to a Volkswagen Beetle
parked overnight in a restricted zone. It was only when the officers tried
to scrape snow off the numberplate that they realised the vehicle was made
entirely of snow.

Practical jokers had left the snow sculpture — complete with wheels,
headlights and wing mirrors — in a car park in Aachen, Germany. The
police said: “We can take a joke as well as the next person, and it was a
very convincing prank but, whether it was made of metal or snow, it was
still obstructing a road.”

Spaghetti hopes

A religious group that claims to worship pasta says it will appeal to the
European Court of Human Rights after the government in Poland refused to
list it as an official faith.

A spokesman for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose members are
known